different between restrain vs unstinted

English

Etymology

From Middle English restreinen, a borrowing from Old French restreindre, from Latin r?stringere, present active infinitive of r?string? (“fasten, tighten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st?e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: re?strain

Verb

restrain (third-person singular simple present restrains, present participle restraining, simple past and past participle restrained)

1. (transitive) To control or keep in check.
2. (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
3. (transitive) To restrict or limit.

   He was restrained by the straitjacket.

Synonyms

• (control or keep in check): check, limit, restrain, withstrain; See also Thesaurus:curb
• (deprive of liberty): confine, detain

Related terms

• constrain
• restraint
• restrict

Translations

Anagrams

• arrestin, retrains, strainer, terrains, trainers, transire

English

Etymology

From un- +? stinted.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?st?n.t?d/

Adjective

unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)

1. Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 33:

     Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.

   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, ch. 1:

     Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.

   • 1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 31:

     You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.

   • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. 24:

     The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.

   • 2005, Robert Hughes, "Art: American Renaissance Man," Time, 21 June:

     Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.

Synonyms

• (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained

Related terms

• stint
• stinted
• unstinting
• unstintingly

Translations